Titrate

Quick meaning: Titrate is a verb meaning (medicine, intransitive) To adjust the amount of a drug consumed until the desired effects are achieved.

Meaning

(medicine, intransitive) To adjust the amount of a drug consumed until the desired effects are achieved.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) To precisely control.
2. A solution of unknown concentration which is (to be) tested by means of titration.
3. (analytical chemistry) To ascertain the amount of a constituent in a solution (or other mixture) by measuring the volume of a known concentration (the "standard solution") needed to complete a reaction.
4. (obsolete) Precisely measured.

Example Sentences

A 5mg dose could not ease the pain, so he titrated to 10mg which brought him immediate relief.

"All mammals engage in dangerous play," Gray told me. "Dangerous play is how kids learn how to titrate fear."

In crisis debriefing, because it is done in group sessions, you can’t titrate the amount of exposure to the individual, so some may get more upset.

Dr. R. Dubois's apparatus for applying anæsthetics composed of titrate mixtures of chloroform and air was described on June 22nd..before the Academy of Sciences.

Word Forms

• titrates
• titrating
• titrated

Synonyms for titrate

Depending on context, synonyms include calibrate, fine-tune, gauge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include weigh, adjust, treasure, evaluate, measure, value.

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